Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Probably only The Flight of the Conchords could couple 'hands' with 'mans', and get away it.
I don't know about Julian Clary being gay but I do know he is a New Statesman columnist.
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...and apologies for not being blacked out--but I am, in spirit.
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Also, on Rush, isn't it funny how Right-wing Americans always want to escape to New Zealand, as if it's some kind of libertarian paradise.
Spotted the cover of the current issue of Newsweek today: We Are All Socialists Now
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It was a great Media 7 last night. I was convinced by Pat Booth and Donna Chisholm--and liked now Russell graciously allowed PB to tell a longish anecdote about DC, which wasn't entirely to the point. Less convinced by Keith Hunter--his experiment of locking three women in a cabin, to test the 'scratches on the hatch' evidence in the Scott Watson cases sounds rather dodgy.
Media 7 is now appointment viewing on Thursday night (and I will urge my students to do the same) but it is playing hell with keeping up with Mad Men.
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Well, that was all kind of jolly--the Herald online pays due respect to David Hayward!
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Russell: Seeing you find such interesting things in basements, you should swing by our place some day. We still have boxes packed and untouched from when we went to live in Cardiff for six months in 2004. Like you, we have dirt-controlled temperatures and boxes of the stuff of childhood detritus (MCDonald's giveaways, Lego, Barbie, comics, books, comics, posters, drawings). I try to give some of it away but, generally, it defeats me.
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Attention is shifting away from what happens at Waitangi on Feb 6 and I think that is a good thing. The politicians can go through their ritualistic dances, whilst the rest of us choose to celebrate our national day in joyous and less formal ways--without prayers, (military) bands, and associated hoo-haa.
We journeyed to Kawhia for the Maori Kai festival and even though we got the day wrong (it was on Saturday. rather than Friday!), it was a great day to sit by the sea, eat whitebait fritters, and watch kids haul in buckets of makarel. On the return, we detoured to Aotea Harbour, which was some kind of discovery--a large harbour which drains at low tide, leaving firm sand and lagoons of warm water, overlooked by tremendous sand dunes.
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Why should I change to bulbs that look different and are uncomfortable to insert?
This is an image I don't want to even think about! Great stuff, David.
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Oh, the Mazengarb Report and licentious behaviour in Lower Hutt! I have a copy of the document somewhere.
My favourite piece of 1950s legislation (because it was so daft), was the 1955 Rabbits Amendment Act. Sponsored by Mabel Howard, it was intended to deter the skinning of innocent bunnies, to halt the manufacture of local versions of Davy Crockett 'coon-skin' hats--and thus prevent little Kiwis from turning into little Americans.
And then there were bodgies and widgies ...
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Off the topic a touch, but I wonder if anyone else has read the piece by Andrew Sullivan "Why I Blog" in The Atlantic . Required reading for all of us I would reckon.
If you are interested, I have posted a review of the Auckland Leonard Cohen concert, on Kiwiboomers. Ten days after the event, I know, but k'boomers updates monthly...and memories do not fade that quickly.